NUMBER OF FIRES IN RUSSIA GROW, DEATH TOLL REACHES 50
Baku, August 5 (AZERTAC). The number of natural fires raging in Russia is growing. The death toll has reached 50, the information department of Russia`s Emergency Situations Ministry /EMERCOM/ said on Thursday.
“A dead body was found as the houses burned down late last week were cleared in the Nizhny Novgorod Region,” the source said. “A patient died in a hospital in the Voronezh Region, thus the death toll has reached 50.”
“No more houses were burned over the past day,” the source said.
There are 843 fires, including 47 fires in peat fields, the ministry said.
“Over the past day, 373 new fires emerged, and 254 were extinguished, thus there are still 589 fires in Russia which occupy 196,000 hectares.”
The number of fires grew by 69, and the surface of fires grew by 7,000 hectares against August 4, the source said.
About every second fire /291/ at 71,000 hectares is localised.
At the same time, over the past day 15 new peat fires emerged, and as of Thursday there are still 41 peat fires in Russia - seven in the Sverdlovsk Region, 29 - in the Moscow Region, two - in Udmurtia, and one in the Ivanovo, Kostroma and Kaluga regions each.
There are almost 162,000 firemen and over 26,000 vehicles fighting the fires, EMERCOM said. Over 20 helicopters and jets extinguish fires.
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